Last night, the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) announced the list of registered training providers that will form its Register of Approved Training Providers (RoATP). The list confirmed Lifetime Training as a registered provider of apprenticeship training and is approved to utilise employer apprenticeship levy funds from May.

Alex Khan, CEO at Lifetime Training commented:

“As the UK’s largest provider of apprenticeship training it was absolutely critical that Lifetime Training’s application to the register was successful. This means it is now full steam ahead for our team to ensure all our employer partners are reform ready as we head into April and May.

For all those employers who didn’t make the register, Lifetime Training offers an end-to-end solution for apprentices across a range of levels and sectors and has over 21 years’ experience in managing large and small employer apprenticeship training needs.

Quoted in FE Week’s report (14th March 2017), the apprenticeships and skills minister Robert Halfon said:

“Giving employers control over their apprenticeships needs and funding is an essential feature of our plan to create an apprenticeships and skills nation....Our new register of apprenticeship providers will mean that only organisations that have passed our quality assurance can deliver apprenticeships....We are giving employers the confidence to do business with high quality training providers, and making sure that individuals can benefit from gold-standard routes as they climb the ladder of opportunity.”

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